"Surely not certainly not, madam,' I replied, speaking at random. Why should I be anxious? He will have dined with the notary. The country is safe, and, moreover, no one knows the fact of his bringing back with him a sum of money.'

"Eva uttered a loud cry. "Robbers! robbers!' said she. 'I had never given a thought to that danger!' "But, madam, I only spoke of it to assure you that it does not exist.'

"Oh, that idea came into your mind, Doctor, because you thought such a misfortune was possible. William! my William! why hast thou left me?' she cried out feebly.

"I was thoroughly plunged in despair at my want of address, hesitating in all my ideas, stammering out some words without meaning, and feeling, to crown my misery, that my eyes were beginning to fill with tears. Come, I am going to cry,' I said; 'this finishes all,' At last an idea came to me.

"Mrs. Meredith,' said I, 'I cannot see you torment yourself thus, and remain at your side, without finding something good to tell you in the way of consolation. I will go and look for your husband. I will take at hazard some one of the roads across the forest; I will look for him everywhere, call him, and go on, if necessary, as far as the town itself."

"Oh, thank you, thank you, my friend,' exclaimed Eva Meredith. Take the gardener, the servant, with you, and go in every direction.'

"We hurriedly returned to the drawingEva rang the bell sharply and often. All the inhabitants of the villa opened the

room;

"Both of us flew towards the entrance. The moon at that moment extricating itself from a cloud, showed in full light a horse covered with foam, but no one on his back, his bridle trailing on the earth, and the empty stirrups striking against his dusty sides. A second cry, this time more terrible, escaped the bosom of Eva; then she turned towards me, her eyes set, her mouth half open, her arms hanging down by her side.

"My friends,' I cried to the terrorstricken domestics, 'light torches and follow me! Madam, we will return home, I hope, with your husband, who is slightly wounded-a sprained ankle perhaps. Do not lose courage-we shall soon return.'

"I will go with you,' murmured Eva Meredith in a half-choked tone.

"Impossible,' I exclaimed; we must go quick; perhaps we may have to go far, and in your state it would be at the risk of your own life and that of your child

"I will go with you,' replied Eva.

"Oh! then it was that I felt how cruel was the isolation of this woman. If she had had a father or a mother they would have made her remain-they could have kept her back by force; but she was alone upon the earth, and to all my hurried remonstrances replied, in a deep dull voice, 'I will go with you.'

"We set out. The moon was now veiled by clouds. There was no light neither in the heavens nor on earth. Scarcely, by the uncertain glimmer of our torches, could we distinguish our road. One servant went on in front, inclining the torch he carried to the right-now to the left, to turn a light upon the ditches and bushes bordering the road. Behind him followed Mrs. Meredith, the gardener, and myself, in the line of light projected from the torch, searching with anguish for any object that might catch

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our eyes. From time to time we raised our voices and called on Mr. Meredith. After us, a stifled sob scarcely murmured out the name of William,' as if a heart had reckoned on the instinct of love to make its tears more readily heard than her cries. "We arrived at the forest. The rain began to fall; and pattering on the leaves of the trees, made so sad a sound, that it seemed as if all around us were weeping.

"The light garments Eva wore were soon penetrated by the cold rain. The water streamed on all sides, over the hair, down the forehead of the poor woman. She had hurt her feet against the stones of the road, and often fell forward nearly on her knees; but rose up again with the energy of despair, and kept on her way. She was a terrible sight! Each trunk of a tree, each rock, one after another, stood out in the red glare of our torches. Occasionally, at some angle of the road, the wind seemed likely to extinguish the lights, and then we halted, lost in the darkness. Our voices, as we called out William Meredith,' became so tremulous that they made even ourselves afraid.

"At last came the moment when, as, fatigued and discouraged, we were plodding our way in silence, Mrs. Meredith suddenly pushed us away from her, sprang forward before us, and threw herself among the bramble bushes. We followed her. As soon as we could raise the torch to distinguish objects, alas! we saw her on her knees by the side of the body of William. He lay at full length on the earth motionless, his eyes set, and his forehead covered with the blood that had escaped from a wound on the left side of the head.

"Doctor?' said Eva to me.

"That one word of itself expressed, 'Does William still live?'

"I stooped down; I felt the pulse of William Meredith-I placed my hand on his heart, and remained silent. Eva kept her eyes upon me all the while, but as soon as my silence became prolonged, I saw her stagger, incline forward; then, without saying a word, without giving vent to a cry, she fell senseless on the dead body of her husband.

"But, ladies," said Doctor Barnaby, turning towards his auditory, "see, the sun shines now; you can venture forth. Let us pause here in this sad recital."

man.

Madam de Moncan approached the old "Doctor," said she, "as a favour, be good enough to complete it. Look at us and you will see no reason to doubt with what interest we listen to you."

In fact, there were no more mocking smiles on the young faces around the village Doctor. He might, too, have seen the tears glistening in the eyes of some. He resumed his story:—

"We carried Mrs. Meredith home, and she lay on her bed many hours without consciousness. I felt that, while it was a duty, it was also a cruelty, to employ all the aids of my art in recalling her to life. I dreaded the distressing scenes that must follow this state of immobility. I remained leaning over the poor woman, bathing her temples with iced water, and watching with anxiety the sad, and yet the happy moment, when I should observe a sigh of respiration escape from her lip. I was deceived in antimy cipations, for I had never seen so mighty a misfortune. Eva half opened her eyes, then shut them again; not a tear escaped her eyelids to creep down her cheek. She remained as if frozen, motionless and silent; had it not been for her heart, that had recommenced its beating under my hand, I should have believed her dead. How sad to become witness to a sorrow that we know to be beyond all consolation! To be silent at such a moment would, I might say, seem to be wanting in sympathy for this unfortunate lady; yet to speak of consolation would be not sufficiently to recognize the grandeur of her misfortune. As for me, who had not been able to find anything to say when I would calm her in her mere anxiety, how could I hope for greater eloquence in the face of suffering like hers? I took the wiser part, that of complete silence. will remain here,' I said to myself; 'I will devote my attention to her physical sufferings as is my duty; beyond that I will remain motionless by her side, as an attached dog would crouch at her feet.' This resolution once taken, I became more calm; I allowed her to live a life that more resembled death. At the end of some hours I applied to the lips of Mrs. Meredith a spoonful of some medicine I judged necessary. Eva turned her head to the opposite side, and kept away from the hand that offered the beverage. A few minutes afterwards I made another attempt."

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THE LAND OF DREAMS.

BY PROFESSOR WILSON.

O DREADFUL is the land of dreams, When all that world a chaos seems Of thoughts so fixed before!

When heaven's own face is tinged with blood, And friends cross o'er our solitude,

Now friends of ours no more!

Or, dearer to our hearts than ever,

Keep stretching forth, with vain endeavour,
Their pale and palsied hands

To clasp us, phantoms, as we go
Along the void, like drifting snow,
To far-off nameless lands!

Yet all the while, we know not why
Nor where those dismal regions lie,
Half hoping that a curse so deep
And wild can only be in sleep,
And that some overpowering scream
Will break the fetters of the dream,
And let us back to waking life,
Fill'd though it be with care and strife;
Since there at least the wretch can know
The meanings on the face of woe,
Assured that no mock shower is shed
Of tears upon the real dead;
Or that his bliss, indeed is bliss,
When bending o'er the deathlike cheek
Of one who scarcely seems alive,
At every cold but breathing kiss,
He hears a saving angel speak-
"Thy love will yet revive!"

Until again" I perish quite," it said, Torn by rude diver from its ocean bed; O unbelieving! for it came to gleam Chief jewel in a monarch's diadem.

WE SHALL SEE!

FROM THE FRENCH OF CHATEAUBRIAND.

THE Past is a blank to our eyes,

And the Present men solely employ,

To count up the bubbles that rise
O'er the Future for pleasure and joy.
Weak mortals their destinies give

To the future where all wish to be;
In fond hopes they happily live,

Crying out, "We shall see, we shall see!" But say when that morrow appears, What is it, and where its delight? 'Tis but a to-day which our tears Fall over at morning and night. As nearer approaches the day,

That we long'd for with ardour and glee, We stare at it simply, and say,

As it passes along, "We shall see!'' The old man who bends to the ground, His resting-place drawing so near, Thinks not of his end, but looks round, And hopes to live many a year.

The Doctor in vain would advise,

And whispers how near Death may be; But he heeds not the warning, and dies,

With these words on his lips, "We shall see!"

Charles went to his cousin one day,

Who had ever vowed friendship sincere,
His kindly assistance to pray,

And this was the answer of Pierre :-
"To my purse you have conquer'd a right,
You may always depend upon me,
But to-night!-I can't spare it to-night,-
Come to-morrow, and then we shall see!"
"We shall see," is a magical word,
In dilemmas of every kind;
On the minister's lips it is heard,
And it helps him a moral to find.
The learned who write in Gazettes,
Politicians of every degree,

Our debtors, false friends and coquettes,
All answer alike, "We shall see!"

MOUSQUETAIRE COLLAR. Materials.-French Muslin, and Messrs. W. Evans & Co's. Royal Embroidery Cotton, No. 50. THIS collar has the merit of being very rapidly and easily worked, as well as very effective when done. For many of our friends, it will be found quite as large as is desirable, and it is a design which can very easily be enlarged. When marked on the muslin, with a piece of toile ciré underneath, every part is to be traced.

The white line between the eyelet-holes and the edge is simply sewed over; the edge itself is done in raised button-hole Istitch, the stitches beng all of an equal length, not graduated. The grapes are done in graduated overcast; the other parts are simply sewed over.

All those parts which are quite black in the engraving, are either cut out, or pierced with a stiletto. There is no satin stitch in this collar.

JEWELLED DOYLEYS.

2nd Round.-+ 2 Sc, 1 Ch, miss none, + 8 times in the round.

3rd Round.-+ 3 Sc, 1 Ch, miss none, + 8 times.

4th Round. + 4 Sc, 1 Ch, miss none, + 8 times.

5th Round.-+5 Sc, 1 Ch, miss none, + 8 times.

6th Round.+6 Sc, 1 Ch, miss none, + 8 times.

7th Round.+ 7 Sc, 1 Ch, miss none,+ 8 times.

8th Round.+ 8 Sc, 1 Ch, miss none, + 8 times.

9th Round.+ 9 Sc, with a bead on every one, 1 Ch, +8 times.

10th Round.-2 cotton, + 5 Sc, beads, 2 cotton, 1 bead, 2 cotton, + 8 times.

11th Round.-+ 3 cotton, 3 beads (on centre 3 of 5), 3 cotton, increasing one, 3 beads, the second coming over 1 bead, +8 times.

Observe that the increasing in every round takes place on the cotton stitches only, and not by working 2 in 1, but by making a chain stitch.

12th Round. + 4 cotton, 1 bead (on centre of 3), 3 cotton, 5 beads (over 3 and a cotton on each side), + 8 times.

13th Round.-4 cotton, +1 bead (over 1) 3 cotton (over 2), 3 beads, 1 cotton on centre of 5 beads, 3 beads, 3 cotton, + 8 times.

14th Round.-+1 bead over 1, 3 cotton over 2, 3 beads, 4 cotton (over 1 cotton and a bead on each side), 3 beads, 3 cotton, + 8 times.

15th Round.+ 1 bead on 1, 3 cotton, 4 beads, 3 cotton (over 2), 4 beads, 3 cotton,+8 times.

16th Round.-+1 bead on 1, 4 cotton

on 3, 11 beads, 3 cotton + 7 times. The 8th time, 3 cotton on 2.

17th Round.-+ 3 beads (the second over 1 bead), 4 cotton, 9 beads (on centre 9 of 11), 4 cotton, + 8 times.

18th Round.-+5 beads (on 3, and a cotton stitch on each side), 4 cotton, 7 beads (on centre 7 of 9), 4 cotton, +7 times. The 8th time 5 cotton at the end.

19th Round.-+5 beads over 5, 5 cotton, 5 beads on centre 5 of 7, 5 cotton, + 7 times. The eighth time, 5 beads, 5 cotton, 5 beads on centre of 7.

20th Round.-+ 3 cotton, 1 bead on centre of 5 cotton, 3 cotton, 3 beads on centre of 5, + all round.

21st Round.-+ 3 cotton, 3 beads (the 2nd on 1 bead, 3 cotton, 1 bead on centre of 3, +16 times.

22nd Round.-4 cotton over 3, + 5 beads, (over 3, and a cotton at each side), 6 cotton (making 1), + 16 times.

23rd Round.-+ 5 beads over 5, 2 cotton, 2 beads, 2 cotton, 5 beads over 5, 7 cotton over 6, + 8 times.

24th Round.-1 cotton, + 3 beads (on